We have a System, but We Need a Different System
Economist Jeffrey Sachs exposes the systematic suppression of poor countries especially Africa by the so-called developed nations. Watch the video
Henry Kissinger: We are now Living in a Totally Different Era
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is talking to Edward Luce of Financial Times (FT) about the new Foreign policy of the United States, especially regarding the US relationship with Russia and China. He commented that the United States should be conscious of differences with both Russia and China in formulating specific policies but should …
The War in Ukraine and the Future of the World
Yuval Noah Harari and Timothy Snyder talk at StandforUkraine.com about the war in Ukraine and its implications for the future of the world. Both speakers are on Ukraine’s side unconditionally, that is without questioning the contribution of the NATO in triggering the war. Harari is not a politician but Snyder is a respected political commentator …
The War in Ukraine Could Change Everything
In this video, Yuval Noah Harari, a noted historian and futurist, addresses issues related to the War in Ukraine. He responds to questions on TEDs. Harari is not a politician and he characterizes himself as such. But unfortunately, he would not go beyond declaring that he is not a politician and stop talking about politics. …
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe. His first major philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, was the winning response to an essay contest conducted by the Academy of Dijon in 1750. In this work, Rousseau argues that the progression of the sciences and …
Niccolo Machiavelli
Machiavelli was a 16th-century Florentine philosopher known primarily for his political ideas. His two most famous philosophical books, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, were published after his death. His philosophical legacy remains enigmatic, but that result should not be surprising for a thinker who understood the necessity to work sometimes from the shadows. There is still …
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (April 5, 1588–December 4, 1679) was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political philosophy. Michael Oakeshott famously described it as ‘the greatest, perhaps the sole, masterpiece of political philosophy written in the English language.[1] Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history, geometry, ethics, law, psychology general philosophy and what …
John Locke
John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher. Locke’s monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) is one of the first great defenses of modern empiricism and concerns itself with determining the limits of human understanding in respect to a wide spectrum of topics. It thus tells us in some …
The Academy or College of Philosophy
Plato established the first academy in around 387 BCE. The Academy taught mathematics, dialectics, natural science and preparation or training for statesmanship. The Academy continued operating under different scholarchs (College presidents) and phases, most notably, skepticism introduced by Arscecilaus (315 0 241 BCE). This skepticism is in essence akin to the contemporary argument by postmodernists. …
Postmodernism: Theory and Politics
THE TERM “POSTMODERNIST” has been used to describe everything from contemporary paintings and music videos to amusement parks and information technologies. Things remain confusing even if we restrict our attention to postmodernist theory. A great variety of perspectives have been lumped under this heading. Read more